Jessi Brewer
PhD - ABD
M.A. in English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR, 2016B.A. in English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR, 2012
jdbrewer@brandeis.edu
Primary Advisor
John Plotz
Research Interests
Victorian Literature and Empire, Medical Literature, Carceral Studies, Public Humanities
Awards
Democracy in Danger Grant from the Mandel Center for the Humanities 2024
Mandel Center for the Humanities Graduate Dissertation Innovation Grant for Reimagining Narratives for Social Change: A Study of Victorian Literature and Incarceration, 2023
Presentations
"Abolitionist Imaginations: Reimagining Stories of Justice-Impacted Women" Community Engagement Conference, Brandeis University, April 2024.
"Imagining Abolition: Carceral Logics and the Literary Imagination in Dickens's Great Expectations". Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 2024.
“Mapping Bodies and Medical Discourse in Martin R. Delany’s Blake in the Huts of America.” Northeastern Modern Language Association. Baltimore, Maryland, March 2022.
“Mass Incarceration and Racial Justice in America.” Brandeis Provost Teaching Innovation Grant: Sessions on Racial Justice. Brandeis University, Spring 2022.
Favorite Work
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, LOTR by Tolkien, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte